Happy New Year and all that.

I have been taking a wee break from writing here. Seemingly nothing seems as inspiring and interesting as the trip to Russia. So, that being said...I am motivated.

Funny thing this time of year. Recovering from spending money and waiting to see how the government is going to screw you once you get your T4. Income tax should be abolished. The guy with that as a campaign promise would get my vote.

It doesn't matter who you vote for really. For once I am actually optimistic about the American election. Not that I could vote in it. I am thinking Obama should get in. I could hardly ignore the fact that Oprah was backing him up. Colour will have an impact too. The 2000 election had a racist agenda in Florida. Y'all watch Michael Moore, right? Alex Jones? So, colour may play a factor. Oprah has a lot of money. I suspect if the campaign is genuine, there could be very little effect of lobbying or bribing one of the richest people in the world who I would expect is providing her own lobbying in the direction of Obama. This might be the change everyone needs.

The religious front I can't get past though. The religious right. When you watch that crap on the electric box thing with the lit up glass and pick up an American channel spouting off about all the nothing they think they know and feed it mercilessly to the ignorant. When the western religions push their presence on the east it obviously causes a lot of upset. YAWWWWWWWWNnn!!...Iraq anyone?.... The Middle East can't stop fighting amongst themselves for religious differences, so the missionaries in camouflage... you know the story... and for that they get to bleed and die there. Why I suppose I am stating this is that religion should have no place in politics. Especially in western politics. Multicultural as we are, there are represented religions existing in North America from all over the world actively trying to make a go of it here. Most of those people immigrated to the land of immigrants to start something new and leave their sometimes terrorizing pasts behind in the country they left. So, as a united country we should respect the families and countrymen of our home countries. There is always a group saddened by any military intervention. I would think that the sadness would have to be unquestionably justified. Sadly, it never is. Now, this ties me back into economy. Wars, banks, markets,pollution...pick a topic shall we.

Housing is a good one. This poorly run town that I live in hasn't a clue on community planning. Find it, love it, exploit it, destroy it...burn, plow and pave...all the things that I moved here for are going away. I wanted to be out of the city, closer to the sticks, out of the city... but, it is a city and traffic is a huge problem. We are about 6 overpasses away from having something functional. Throw in another 80 round-abouts and we're good to go. But the labyrinth they are building has no connecting roads and mile upon mile of criss-cross cul-de-sac subdivision causing the ugliest clear cut of land imaginable. The demand to be here is very high and the once beautiful treed valley is a concrete jungle with a churning white summer pond directly adjacent to it. And ugly. People buy here to have a vacation home and the realtors, appraisers, banks all get to inflate prices and interest the wealthy to build massive ugly blocks of building to use once or twice a year for a week at a time. You know the scenarios. Whistler was the same way once. Then the jobs didn't pay enough for people to afford to live there and work. So they left or they share accommodations. If the push is to turn all of BC into a big park and exploit the hell out of it so it gets used and used like (insert analogy here) eventually worn out and ruined. The problem is that what they are wrecking will take many years to right itself.

Once humans cleanse the earth of themselves and the bugs thrive and die off and the climate naturally cycles again, then good old Ma Nature will bring it all back to balance. But that takes time and humans are lazy and impatient, so naturally it will all be done half-assed and too little, too late.

Kids look away...(Who the FUCK cares about Brittany Spears?) Stop feeding the machine. When you buy and soak up that shit, then it does nothing for humanity but poison it. The tabloids, "reality TV", all that crap could be put to better use. Telling the truth once in a while would be nice. From any publication for that matter. Speculation is dangerous thing on the ignorant mind. Especially spun and slanted it becomes what they remember and repeat and get repeated to them..until it becomes truth to them. Accepted really. But treated the same.

So, eat better, move your ass a little, and stop waiting for the magic pill that will make you better. Convince yourself of something different for once. Make the difference in yourself first. Comfort is not in the name of the pain that ails you. Chronic this and Hyper that are all terms used to specify more and more detailed and unique "illnesses" that they treat with a pill, or scare you into placebo vaccines, or turn you into a guinea pig. There are a lot of "new" trial drugs all the time. I stopped going to the doctor when every visit was an offer to try something new. Find balance. You don't have to be a hardbody.

To the government of that country just south of us:

If you happen to be surfing porn or browsing the web for lawyers to defend your corrupted customs officials and happen upon this blog, then please read my suggestions for boosting your economy. Firstly, feel free to declassify cannabis from schedule 1 and free up a few million wasted dollars every year. Then with the money you save you can go and arrest yourselves I guess. You are all crooked bastards tainted by the positions you were elected to. The greatest of intentions flipped into the same pile of shit with a new batch of flies picking at it. Can't help yourselves. So, if there is anything holy it will call for hanging of the war crime ridden leaders that cast upon us the rules of engagement and Geneva conventions and succumb to the punishment of their own creations. Wars for commodities are an atrocity. Look it up if you like. Compare the notes. You will be surprised what you read.

That's it for me. I think I made up for my a few months of not typing. It is good practice anyways. Cheers

RJDK

Apparently there is swearing in this blog. If a word is fitting, then I will use it. Sorry to the yungins that are possibly learning more useful slang on the internet. I am just giving back what was given to me. I am such a giver. Selfless giving is all it is. Grandpas taught me well. Grandmas taught me lessons for saying what Grandpas taught me. I remember when I was a little shit though. Things were different back then. Never swear near your parents is always a safe bet. But, I did. Oh well. On the playground, on the ice, on my bike, in my truck, in the bar, at the police.. and now just at myself usually.

So, if I can say one thing to an impressionable young mind is that...

you didn't hear anything from me.

Well, today I made the decision to adapt a more reader friendly approach to posting. I have edited most previous posts for blatant rant infested swearing and such. Contrary to how some may think, I actually have a child and he is very impressionable. Not to mention brilliant. He reads between the lines here and asks amazing questions. Most importantly he thinks for himself. Who'd think that an 8 year-old could do that. Not the public school system. Shut em up with Ritalin and wonder why they have health issues or social issues later.

So, as promised to some verbally I am going to start posting books that are very influential and inspiring. Let me know if there are some I may need to review myself. So without a better way to do this...we'll just start here..in no particular order or rank

Look to the right=============>>>>>>>>>

I changed template finally


That should get you started. I will probably touch on each of these a little when I get a moment.

At some point in my life, these books found me and opened my eyes and my mind. Some are fun, others are truly insightful.

Make yourself one that makes a difference in the world. We must abolish the apathy.

THE SIMPLE ECONOMY MANIFESTO



Most people are going to read this and discover that there is a simpler way to be. Deep down we all want the same things.

The Prohibition


How do mobsters get rich? If you said dealing, you are probably right. The prohibition of alcohol allowed for people to turn a profit for a product in demand. People just plain wanted it. A large number probably didn’t care. I wasn’t there to know.

The current dealing in “illicit drugs” in ALL communities seems to stand as a similar practice. There is an underground network setup and functioning rather efficiently making steady profit. Once alcohol was affordable and could be bought commercially, it became a background noise. You know it’s there, you don’t pay attention to it fully, and every so often it satisfies a craving so, you go and see what it is about.

Being that this is about what we refer to as “drugs”, I can only believe people will change their way of thinking by calling it something else. Spirit Lifters.

How did the crime problem go away with prohibition? Alcohol became regulated.

So, if you haven’t figured out where I am going with this, here is what I propose we do. It may seem outrageous at first, but it does require an open mind and the ability to forget all old thought patterns. The current system has not worked, has never worked and never will work. I don’t like to say never, but it only makes sense to try something else.

With all change there is a transition period. It will take time to round up and coordinate resources, but the simplicity of it is the reason for me writing.

Are you thinking “GET ON WITH IT!!!”?? Okay.

Regulate all drugs and let people do the drugs they want to.


There is so much money spent trying to prevent drugs from international travel. I won’t get into conspiracy theories about Government assistance in importing drugs. “Go and watch TV. Keep yourself occupied. Don’t mind me. I just have a war to fight over here in Vietnam. I might borrow your son or daughter for awhile. Yep, they’ll get home safe.” Daily propaganda.

The black market tax associated with illicit drugs is the whole root of the problem. If the drugs were in such large supply and pure, but still accessible, people could get their medicine and treatment without killing or stealing for it. No death. There just should be an outlet where you can pick it up. Hey, they have these places already. Pharmacies.

Pharmacists have some pretty potent drugs on their shelves. One could easily become addicted to any of them, but for the most part you are going to only get a small bottle at a time. I’m thinking regular folks here. Not the extreme cases of unfortunate people needing massive medication. That’s a whole other topic. Well, a spin off. Freeing up money and resources to direct attention to real issues like environment, health, smart economics, equality and research. People that are sick might get hope from money being put towards research for their new superbug that is immune to all of our bandaid fixes.

In these so called “Pharmacies” you can equip yourself with whatever a doctor considers you able to administer to yourself safely. See the relationship. Go and see a doctor and explain your needs. If you don’t have to pay an arm and a leg to pay for a dose of medication, then you can carry on with your day. You wouldn’t have to be trying to scrape together $20 for a flap of some concoction that has been cut and buffed up and inflated to look like more of the drug you are after.

What this society needs is for people to be responsible for their actions. If you kill somebody while intoxicated by anything is not right. The idiocy of one can compromise the privilege of many. Some whiskey drinkers beat their wives. Others call it “Scotch” or “Bourbon” and are sophisticated. Every man has his poison. For some, they need help. Their poison has taken them over. The balance has shifted and the reason and logic vanishes.
“Who could do such a thing?”

The NIMBY's will be up in arms I'm sure, but we would expect to be able to rationally dedicate an area in any town or city to be a safe district or implement the comfort of your home law. You would be entitled to fulfill your habit as long as certain criteria was adhered to and that while intoxicated you must remain in your yard, but preferably in your house under certain conditions.

Drunk in public is already a punishable offense with a ticket or a trip to the room for the night. No different. Out of line in public you will get reprimanded. Furthermore, you will be held accountable for all of your actions whether intoxicated, or not, in public.

HAPPY MARCH!

MARCH...TO THE BEAT OF THE WAR DRUM.

Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drum......pay no mind to the rabble....apc - MJK and co

PREDICTIONS...I have heard from a bird that the word is to hide all that you have for the
time is to come to beware the timewave. The I ching by King Wen and the calendar of the Mayan can be considered to be saying that the solstice on the twenty one becomes the day in twenty twelve of the twelve moons in the year that awareness will find a new form. Beware the eye of the illuminati. Consider the timewave. Zero on the timeline like Chuck D is to rhyme time and the homo sapien will suddenly shift and evolve into the luminous. The shamans and the witches will bring us to the divine and time will be standing still; forever to and fro. Timewave brings the time warp and the world as we know it will be what evolution intended and what creation stands to believe was the intention all along.

Happy February!

The month of my birthday.

Good things coming in 2006.

I have a new real job.

www.encompassgroup.ca

BUT!!!!! We are close to printing a couple sets of limited edition prints. We have some very talented artists working with us to develop the image we want to debut with. We will not disappoint.

A first impression should not be bad because the bad impression is the one remembered.

Well, my first post was a rant at society. This time I feel a little more peaceful. A lot going on is all I can say. Busy new year.

Went like this..... applied for a job, worked at my old job out of town, hired for new job while on last day out of town with old job. Monday I quit. Tuesday I went to the coast to bust me arse for 2 weeks. Then 2 weeks of sweet FA at home really. Just a blur of activity defining the first days of the rest of my life. Quitting was fun!!!! I was called names and everything. I obviously felt better about the career move than they did, but hey.....it's a long story. A piece at a time. Gotta learn, gotta grow. Can't stagnate. That sums it up.

Money people, money. Invest young and be rich younger. Unless you are freakishly wealthy from a genetic defect that made you millions in the circus. Ummmm....no.

Anyways, look for the shirts to come out to some stores in Western Canada. We might even sell direct.

Our women's clothing line is also available. We have our topless line. They are clear in colour and weightless. Very cool. Wear without a bra if you like.

Wish all that read this the best of 2006.

Talk to you soon